Man survives after falling 10 stories onto moving car

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(CNN) -- One witness thought she came upon a lifeless body during her routine walk in San Francisco -- but firefighters say the man who was lying in the middle of the street survived a fall as high as 10 stories.

The man, whose name was not released, is a window washer who fell from a building, the San Francisco Fire Department said.

He fell between eight and 10 stories, landed on a moving car and bounced into the middle of the street, fire officials said.

"He looked lifeless," the witness, Maa-Becca Tucker, said on Twitter. She looked at the car the window washer landed on, and it was totaled -- "as if another car came from above and fell on top."

But firefighters say the man was alive when they treated him at the scene and transported him to the hospital.